eLearning Roadtrip

Living Under the Sword of Data, on #Lrnchat

ellen wagner — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:08:38 PDT

On May 9, 2013 I will have the pleasure of joining the crew at #Lrnchat for a session on the topic of learning analytics. You will find us on Twitter, Thursday, 8:30 pm ET/5:30 PT. Look for us at #lrnchat,...

The Big Data Landscape

ellen wagner — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:30:44 PDT

If you post the term "Big Data" in your Google search window today, more than 2 billion google search results will appear. If you perform a similar search on Bing, you will see that more than 1,790,000 Big Data links...

NEW NSF REPORT: New Technology-based Models for Postsecondary Learning

ellen wagner — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:15:50 PDT

In January 2013 I participated in a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation to help establish a 10 year vision to reconceptualize postsecondary learning. This past week our co-convenors, Chris Dede, Harvard University and Eric Grimson, MIT, released the...

The Reason THIS EDUdotcom May Not Be As Different From Last Time As You Think

ellen wagner — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:49:50 PST

If there was ever any doubt that we are in the midst of a new dot.com boom for education, that doubt was removed at this week's SXSWEDU. The event brought entrepreneurs and educators to Austin, Texas for four days of...

The Burden of Knowing

ellen wagner — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:10:55 PST

Important questions can get swept aside when the rumble of excitement about future possibilities are loudest. Nowhere is this more clear than in the emerging arena of learning analytics. The fact that we can track information just about anytime, anyplace...

Funsuckers

ellen wagner — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:38:38 PDT

Marc Prensky once famously accused instructional designers of sucking the fun out of learning at an EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Conference a number of years back. As you can imagine, instructional designers were not amused. I was reminded of Marc's quotable...

Losing Our (Analytics) Religion

ellen wagner — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:48:06 PDT

You may have noticed that I've been kinda quiet on the blogging front. It's not for lack of things to say, exactly. More that there has been so much sound and fury around the emerging topic of learning analytics that...

In Memoriam: Tim M. Martin

ellen wagner — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:40:34 PST

I'm still a little uncomfortable using social media when it comes to sharing really sad news. And yet, I know that tweets and posts and blogs really are the fastest way to share. It is with this in mind that...

Since You've Asked: More About the PAR Framework

ellen wagner — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:31:21 PST

The December 15, 2011 Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog by Marc Parry shared news about a groundbreaking project we have taken on at WCET. It describes our efforts to create a single, federated database of de-identified student records...

eLearning Isn't Software

ellen wagner — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:07:15 PST

One of the reasons I attend learning technology conferences is that they offer a highly efficient way to scan the horizon for emerging trends likely to affect learning technology adoption. Conferences also provide a chance to see which "idea seeds"...